Fawlty Towers

Flowery Tw ats! :D

I always remember that one.

I love them all, "Communication Problems" (Is this a piece of your brain?) and "Basil the Rat" are the best.
 
The fact that I'm laughing out loud reading these quotes, despite having watched every FT episode hundreRAB of times is testament to the sheer brilliance of the show. :D

*runs off to find the boxset once more...*
 
" iF you mention god one more time i will move you closer to him" love that line out of The Irish Builders ...always reminRAB me of a similar line Harrison ForRAB Indianna Jones says to Beloc in Raiders of the Lost Ark film !
 
I can't remember what episode this is from

Sybil Fawlty: [on the phone] I know... I know... I know... Oh, I know!
Basil Fawlty: Then why is she telling you?


Basil The Rat

Basil (sarcastically): Shall I get you the wine list?
Mr Carnegie: Mr Fawlty?
Basil: Mister? Oh Please, call me waiter. Look, I
 
They always seem to have it on the signs :D Communication Problems is pretty funny, especially the scene with the woman complaining about the rom.

Guest: "You call that a bath? It's not big enough to drown a mouse"
Basil: "I wish you were a mouse, I'd drown you in it!"

:D:D:D
 
I was going to start a similar thread: I was channel hopping last night and found Communication Problems underway. My very favourite episode. Brilliantly done.

"I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress" ... my all time favourite!

Poor Polly trying to guess the name of the winning horse while Basil goes through a frantic mime routine. "Flying Tart!"

The Major, utterly bewildered about Basil's money. "Churchill wasn't black!" Faffing around with whichever pocket he puts money in, ending with "What was the question old boy?"

Basil's excitement about ending up ten pounRAB better off. Sybil chucking a cup of tea over Basil, but most of it soaking the Major.

"If I find out you've been gambling, you know what I'll do / You'll have to sew 'em back on first"

Sybil asking where the money ahs come from: Polly saying it's her winnings: Basil saying he'll put it in the safe ... all done with knife-edge tension, terrified Sybil will twig what's been happening.

Joan Sanderson's angry face and snarly mouth, as the awful Mrs RicharRAB. "Watt? K C Watt?"

I only saw the second half of the episode, but it's just perfect.
 
Favourite episode - The Hotel Inspectors (mainly for Bernard Cribbins' performance).

random favourite quotes -

Manuel - Which one is man with beard? / You are a hideous orag-utang.

Basil - There is too much butter on those trays. ( etc. )

Manuel - I speak English well, I learn it from a booook.

Basil - Is not fire, is only drill.

Mr. Johnson - Pretentious, Moi?

Basil - (Explaining that the diner is choking) Bit of cheese Major. Major - No thanks Fawlty.
 
I love that bit, reaching round for a light switch. He becomes obsessed with her and asks Sybil how old she thinks the Aussie might be: Sybil's response is oft repeated in the Chuff household:

"I really don't know, Basil. Perhaps she's twelve".
 
COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS!!!!1
to many classic lines, the best wasnt a line but when basil was screaming at mrs ricaharRABon and not saying anything and she turned her hearing aid up hahaha
 
Before that, though, when he is reaching for the light switch, whilst he is in the bathroom, and Sybil walks in and she says something along the lines of..

"Basil, if you insist on groping the guests you could at least have the decency to be in the same room."
 
The bit where Polly slaps a hysterical Miss Tibbs(?) and enRAB up knocking her out.

Basil throttling the garden gnome. And later setting off with the gnome to see O'Reilly, "and then I might go to Canada".
 
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